“The job of the U.S. Armed Forces is not to host drag shows to transform foreign cultures… The military’s job is to dominate any foe and annihilate any threat to America anywhere, anytime, and any place.“
– President Donald Trump at West Point Graduation
“I appreciate all that President Trump has done to try to end this terrible war. But to end any war, you must have willing partners. As of yet, Putin is not willing.”
– U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham
“Vladimir Putin is one of the most consistent world leaders in modern history. He has been absolutely consistent in his territorial ambitions and his desire to restore ‘Russian greatness’. But every US president has made a mistake of trusting him.”
– Ben Shapiro
“Putin hasn’t changed and he never will. He is laser focused on taking Ukraine, weakening NATO, and playing the US. This is not a time to loosen sanctions on Russia. We should impose further sanctions to cut off Putin’s ability to continue this war.”
– Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley
“Our ultimate goal is a path to citizenship to all 11 million or however many there are here.“
– Democrat Senate Leader Chuck Schumer
“New immigrants should love America. Not hate it. If they don’t love America, they should go somewhere else!”
– U.S. Senator Mike Lee
Democrats Scare Tactics Continue: Same old playbook. Lie, yes, lie about what is in the Republican House passed Budget Bill and try and scare senior citizens and others… that’s all they’ve got!
The reality is spending continues to increase, just at lower levels. The bill stops some abuses by imposing work requirements on able-bodied adults, tightening eligibility checks, and freezing provider taxes that states use to extract more federal matching funds.
It’s a step in the right direction… it’s politically realistic and should be able to garner enough votes to pass the Senate. The alternative isn’t pretty.
Until we can elect a larger conservative majority, educate the voting public on what the Democrats are pushing. Not allow the liberals to get away with framing the political debate… we need to support realistic proposals that can pass and be signed by President Trump.
The Budget Bill is far from perfect, but in today’s political environment it may be the best we can get.
Yes, elections have consequences… the process isn’t perfect… but we are in a better place than the liberal progressive left alternative.
Putin Plays the West: Everyone seems to keep falling for Putin’s rhetoric and ignoring his actions. Putin’s Russia is destroying Ukraine while the world “hopes” for peace. He stalls, and Europe continues to be slow in arming Ukraine; the United States holds back support in hopes for some “deal” while Putin continues his vicious war on Ukraine.
Unfortunately, Putin ONLY understands strength. Only when Putin thinks he could lose, will he seriously come to the table and consider a workable peace deal. Until then, he will keep pushing the envelope as far as Western leaders will let him.
Millions have died. Thousands continue to die every week.
The West has supported Ukraine to a point but has tied one hand behind its back, limiting its ability to fight fire with fire and restricting how it can defend itself.
Reminder… NATO is a defensive alliance; it has not and is not interested in attacking Russia. It was created to defend against Russian aggression… then and now.
How little we have learned.
$3 Billion Dollars – Harvard vs Trade Schools: Giving $3 Billion dollars to one of the richest universities in the country that produces radical leftists does little to help our country. Investing $3 Billion dollars in Trade Schools around the country training electricians, plumbers, carpenters, and more makes a real, lasting impact on society for the better.
An easy decision… Make America Great Again!
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–Saul Anuzis
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This Week: Democrats in disarray, Trump tariffs not causing inflation spike that some predicted, and Jasmine Crockett eyeing powerful chair seat on House committee!
The Medicaid Scare Campaign
The GOP reforms are modest, but they’ll improve care for low-income patients and expand private insurance options.
As Republicans get closer to passing their budget, Democrats are proclaiming that its modest Medicaid reforms are deadly. The reality is the bill would improve healthcare by expanding private insurance options, which provide better access and health outcomes than Medicaid.
Republicans are shrinking from substantive reforms to Medicaid that would reduce federal spending on able-bodied adults covered by the ObamaCare expansion. But at least the bill stops some abuses by imposing work requirements on able-bodied adults, tightening eligibility checks, and freezing provider taxes that states use to extract more federal matching funds.
Cue the progressive sirens. “This is a matter of life and death,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries recently told CNN. Democrats are flogging a new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research that purportedly finds the ObamaCare Medicaid expansion reduced mortality among the low-income adult population by 2.5%.
‘Failure’s not an option’: Trump budget bill will be ‘big’ help for seniors, top House tax-writer says
The bill includes an added $4,000 tax deduction for a significant number of senior citizens
The top tax-writer in the House of Representatives is arguing that President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” will be “big” for American taxpayers as well – including seniors.
House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., and other Republicans on the panel spent months negotiating behind closed doors on how to enact Trump’s tax policies.
Among those is an added $4,000 deduction for Americans aged 65 or older. Seniors with income of less than $75,000 as single filers, and less than $150,000 as joint filers, would be eligible for the full deduction, which then would begin to phase out.
“So, that’s on top of their guaranteed deduction, and that’s per person . . . anyone who has total earnings of $75,000 a year or less is going to be made completely whole, so all the low-income and middle-income seniors on Social Security will be paying zero on Social Security in the long run,” Smith told Fox News Digital, while adding of others, “most of them will be paying much less.”
Republicans are using the budget reconciliation process, which lowers the Senate’s threshold for passage from 60 votes to 51 for certain pieces of fiscal legislation, to advance a vast bill full of Trump’s priorities on taxes, immigration, energy, defense and the national debt.
Because the House already operates under a simple majority, reconciliation allows the party in power to pass sweeping legislation while sidelining the other side, in this case, Democrats.
The Big, Beautiful Bill: A Lifeline for America’s Seniors
In an era when many older Americans struggle to meet their most basic needs, the “Big, Beautiful Bill” stands out as a transformative piece of legislation—a rare example of commonsense policy that prioritizes dignity, stability, and security for our senior citizens.
Across the country, seniors face mounting challenges. Fixed incomes barely stretch far enough to cover skyrocketing housing and medical costs. Prescription drugs often remain unaffordable, and navigating government services can be overwhelming. For too long, older Americans—who have contributed decades of labor, wisdom, and community service—have been marginalized in policy conversations. The Big, Beautiful Bill changes that.
At its core, the bill provides robust financial and health care support to seniors. It increases Social Security benefits by reducing taxes on them, helping better reflect the real expenses seniors face—such as rising medical costs and housing expenses. This simple yet powerful change ensures that monthly checks align more closely with the financial realities of aging. Instead of falling behind inflation, seniors’ incomes will finally keep pace with their needs.
When You’ve Lost ‘The Nation,’ Democrats, You’re Really Losing Bad
President Eisenhower reportedly once said, “Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the cornfield.” My Dad, who farmed much of his life, would have agreed with that. A lot of things look easier from a distance. Democrats, today, seem to be maintaining a great distance between their party platform and, well, reality. Recent polling shows that the Democratic Party has the same approval ratings as head lice. Their leadership is so old that when they cough, they cough up dust. And what passes for their young up-and-comers, on the political scale, makes Che Guevara look like a flaming right-winger.
But wait! There’s more! Now they’ve lost “The Nation,” as left-wing a rag as you’ll find. Author Jeet Heer took to that publication to bemoan the problems Democrats face.
“In theory, the Democratic Party is a political organization aimed at gaining power and implementing an agenda. In practice, the Democrats more closely resemble a hospice, if not a funeral home. An inordinately large number of party leaders are so old and infirm they are at death’s door. This is most notoriously true of the party’s most recent standard-bearer, former president Joe Biden. A recent media controversy over a new book alleging that Biden’s inner circle had covered up his infirmity was overshadowed on Sunday by revelations that he suffers from an aggressive form of prostate cancer.”
… The Democrats, of course, are united by one belief that they hold above all others: Control. They are collectivists, and whenever collectivism has been tried, it’s ended up in subjugation, serfdom, and slavery. There are no old collectivist nations. The largest attempt, the Soviet Union, collapsed under the weight of its own insane, centrally controlled economic policies. China has survived this long mostly by allowing some (no more than they can help) free-market capitalism to take root.
Trump Is Already Obsessed With the Midterms
Eighteen months out, the president is already hyper-engaged in the fight to keep the GOP’s majorities in Congress.
Early in Donald Trump’s first term, the president received what he now views as bad advice: Don’t worry about the midterms, some advisers whispered back then.
If Democrats won majorities in 2018, their thinking went, it would only help him politically — giving him a political foil down Pennsylvania Avenue and opportunity to triangulate in a gridlocked Washington ahead of a tough reelection — a la Bill Clinton.
That failed to pan out, spectacularly: Trump’s agenda ground to a halt as he instead dealt with two years of nonstop investigations and a pair of impeachments. He lost to Joe Biden anyway.
This time, Trump is taking a different approach.
Not even three months into his second term, the president is already hyper-engaged in the fight to keep the GOP’s majorities in Congress. Far from writing off the House or Senate, he’s bullish about defying history and keeping Democrats away from committee gavels and subpoena powers, according to five Republicans I’ve spoken to, including several close Trump confidants.
He’s rolling out early endorsements in hopes of forestalling messy primary fights that could divert precious resources from the general election campaigns. He’s making recruitment calls and buttonholing other Republicans about how he can best use his political muscle. And he’s continuing to raise boatloads of money to shell out in 2026.
Trump’s midterm obsession is also hovering over Capitol Hill as GOP lawmakers try to write his sprawling domestic policy agenda into law. On issue after issue, Trump appears to sympathize with swing-district moderates — the “majority makers” whose races will decide the majority.
Trump and his aides have pushed back on steep cuts to Medicaid in part because the politics stink. They’ve given a wide berth to blue-state Republicans who are pushing to raise the cap on the deduction for state and local taxes — a policy Trump signed in 2017 that helped sink him in suburban districts a year later.
Ruddy: Trump, Zelenskyy Want Peace, Putin Does Not
President Donald Trump has had a simple and bold plan to win the peace in the brutal war between Russia and Ukraine.
In my opinion, Trump knew getting President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the Ukrainians to negotiate was never going to be the problem.
But Russian President Vladimir Putin would be.
So Trump seemingly castigated the Ukrainians at the very same time he extended a very welcoming hand to Putin, a nonthreatening and nonjudgmental one at that…
…President Trump should be applauded for his efforts to get both parties to the peace table.
But if those efforts ultimately fail, only one person is responsible, Vladimir Putin.
The U.S. need not escalate or de-escalate the war — but just give the Ukrainians enough weapons to continue the fight.
It is a war Putin started, and he alone must come to his senses to end it. This may take longer than imagined.
Trump’s allies demand tougher sanctions on Russia
Pressure is mounting in the US on President Donald Trump over his reluctance to impose new sanctions against Russia.
Details: Some Republicans in Congress and White House advisers are insisting on immediate pressure on Moscow over its continued war against Ukraine.
Trump has so far postponed a decision, believing he has a chance to reach an agreement with Vladimir Putin on ending the fighting. He has also repeatedly stated that sanctions are often ineffective and only increase tensions.
According to administration officials, the president’s frustration with Putin’s actions is growing. “He is always looking at different ways to apply pressure,” a senior White House official said. “This is no different. He’s always weighing his options.”
A new package of sanctions, including restrictions on the banking sector and energy, is already in the works. Congress has also proposed a bill imposing a 500% tariff on imports from countries that buy Russian oil. One US official believes this will allow Trump to distance himself from the decision and maintain contact with the Kremlin.
Meanwhile, according to Republican Chuck Grassley, “it is time for sanctions strong enough so Putin knows ‘game over’”.
Russia Has Started Losing the War in Ukraine
The military tide may have turned against Putin.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is skilled at escaping the optics of defeat. He came to power in 2000, projecting authority in Russia’s ongoing war against the breakaway region of Chechnya, where Russia did over time prevail. He put himself forward as a decisive leader in Georgia (via the 2008 Russo-Georgian War), in Ukraine (via the annexation of Crimea in 2014 and full-scale invasion in 2022), and in Syria (via a Russian military incursion in 2015). In none of these theaters has Putin notched a lasting success. Georgia is up for grabs, and Russia’s presence in fading away in Syria, but Putin will accept no responsibility for setbacks on the global stage. He always acts the victor.
With Ukraine, Putin can orchestrate scenes of success. He did so on May 9—Victory Day in Russia, commemorating the Nazi surrender in 1945—standing shoulder to shoulder with Chinese President Xi Jinping. They watched Russian troops marching proudly by on Red Square, sending the message that Russia is not isolated; it is unvanquished. It is Ukraine, the Russian state media tells us, that will falter. It is Europe that cannot overcome its post-national anomie. It is the United States that has bowed to Russia, acknowledging that NATO expansion caused the war, that Ukrainian intransigence has perpetuated it, and that in 2022, when the war began, President Joe Biden was the doddering man who brought the world to the brink of World War III.
But for Russia, Ukraine is not Syria, and it is not Georgia. Syria was a far-away adventure where Russia’s retreat can be swept under the carpet. Georgia is stuck in a holding pattern, vacillating between Russia and the West, which is no disaster for Moscow—whereas Ukraine is a disaster for Moscow. In Ukraine, Russia’s military is stalled while deaths and casualties mount. Putin has no way out of the war—other than to admit a version of defeat. The Kremlin can try to hide the war’s misery from Russians but only to the extent that it can tell the war’s story. Putin cannot as effectively erase evidence of a faltering economy. Nor can he offer Russians any coherent political promise other than endless Putinism. Slowly and not yet suddenly, Russia is starting to lose the war.
300 Years of Russia ‘Protecting the People’ as pretext for invasion and genocide
From the imperial conquests of the 18th century to the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the Kremlin has consistently used one excuse to justify its aggression: the protection of Russian speakers or ethnic Russians. This narrative, repackaged across centuries, has served as a diplomatic smokescreen for conquest, occupation, and coercion. The rhetoric is simple but effective—frame invasions as defensive, wrap imperial ambitions in humanitarian language, and label victims as aggressors. This article traces that pattern across key moments in Russian and Soviet history, substantiated with quotes from Russian leaders and official documents.
UN probe: Russia’s ‘human safari’ in Ukraine is a crime against humanity
Russian is guilty of committing crimes against humanity in southern Ukraine’s Kherson region, according to a new report by the UN’s Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine. The report comes following an extensive investigation into a campaign of Russian drone strikes on Ukrainian civilians over a ten-month period beginning in July 2024, with the probe focusing on an area of southern Ukraine stretching more than 100 kilometers along the right bank of the Dnipro River around the city of Kherson.
Members of the UN Commission determined that Russia was engaged in the deliberate targeting of civilians and concluded that the drone attacks were “widespread, systematic, and conducted as part of a coordinated state policy.” The report detailed how civilians were targeted “in various circumstances, mainly when they were outdoors, both on foot or while using any type of vehicles,” and noted that on a number of occasions ambulances had been struck by drones in an apparent bid to prevent them from reaching victims and providing vital medical assistance.
During the ten-month period covered by the United Nations probe, Russian drones killed almost 150 Ukrainian civilians in and around Kherson, while leaving hundreds more injured. The constant threat of attack has created a pervasive climate of fear throughout the region, with people afraid to leave their homes. Terrified locals say they feel hunted and refer to the drone attacks as a “human safari.”
House Republicans tighten Medicaid rules to stop scams, save taxpayers more than $10 billion
Big battles over taxes and Medicaid policy may have dominated the headlines, but tucked inside House Republicans’ budget bill are a series of good-government changes that backers say will make sure only the right people are getting benefits.
The bill would require the Federal Employees Health Benefits program to check marriage and birth certificates to make sure that people claimed on employees’ policies really are part of their family.
It turns out that thousands are not, and booting them off the rolls will save Uncle Sam roughly $1.5 billion over the next decade, according to the Government Accountability Office.
The bill, whose official name is the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, also cancels government payments under Medicaid for gender transition procedures.
According to one study of nearly 50,000 patients who underwent surgery, a quarter of them were on Medicaid.
In the Education Department, the bill would boot people here on special immigration statuses — such as Cuban parolees, refugees and trafficking victims — from being able to receive student aid.
Trump floats sending $3B in Harvard grants to trade schools
“What a great investment that would be for the USA, and so badly needed!!!,” Trump wrote on Monday.
President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to redistribute $3 billion in grant money from Harvard to trade schools, opening up yet another chapter in his escalating fight with the university.
“What a great investment that would be for the USA, and so badly needed!!!,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. He slammed the school as “very antisemitic” in the post, but did not delve into the specifics around any potential plan to redistribute funds, what grant money he might pull or when the action could take place.
Trump last week halted Harvard’s ability to bring in international students, who comprise roughly 27 percent of the university’s total enrollment, over what Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said was Harvard’s failure to comply with an extensive public records request from DHS. A federal judge blocked that action Friday.
“We are still waiting for the Foreign Student Lists from Harvard so that we can determine, after a ridiculous expenditure of BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, how many radicalized lunatics, troublemakers all, should not be let back into our Country,” Trump wrote Monday. “Harvard is very slow in the presentation of these documents, and probably for good reason!”
In Defense of Federalism
In forsaking federalism, both left and right risk trading liberty for control—bringing us not closer to truth, but nearer to dust.
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries bring us farther from God and nearer to the Dust.
This was the rhetorical question posed by T.S. Eliot in his play, “The Rock,” written in 1934 during the Great Depression between the world wars of the tumultuous 20th Century. It is worth recalling during the 21st Century’s Communication Revolution’s deluge of information not only as a philosophical speculation but also as a matter of practical survival.
For our free republic, one of the most ignored and/or forgotten concepts is federalism
Ponder the enduring, if unheeded, wisdom of the author of A Humane Economy: The Social Framework of the Free Market, the economist Wilhelm Röpke:
Once the mania of uniformity and centralization spreads and once the centrists begin to lay down the law of the land, then we are in the presence of one of most serious danger signals warning us of the impending loss of freedom, humanity, and the health of society.
Of course, the left has long supported the centralization of federal power. They have been the most assiduously active promoters of the administrative state’s elitist bureaucracy and sweeping presidential executive orders, federal statutes, and judicial rulings—all of which are designed to override past, present, and future state and local decision-making.
…Yes, some on the right will aver that time is of the essence to save our free republic. But, especially when paved in haste, good intentions will “bring us farther from God and nearer to the Dust” on our way to some place worse. One forgets or ignores federalism at their peril and that of others. Prudence and patience are virtues for a reason, and federalism and local control—subsidiarity—are proven means to promote and protect personal liberty, human dignity, and a healthy society.
Final Thoughts
